[carapace]

> linking this to the Opium Wars smells like a conspiracy theoroy. This isn't some pay-back for the crimes the East-Indian Company and the West committed against China back then.

Sorry! I just wanted to point out some of the historical context. I don't have a particular fish to fry here.

> why would anyone in China care as long as they don't sell this in China.

That's a bit uncharitable, eh? There are a billion and a half people people in China, they can't all be moral cretins, can they?

[DyslexicAtheist]

not suggesting nor calling anyone a moral cretin. My point is that if you don't have an extradition agreement in place then what are you gonna do? (-> e.g. "why would anyone in China care").

edit: @carapace fwiw, I'd never thought so, or meant to accuse you of subscribing to conspiracy theories. what I meant here is that it could be construed as an incorrect cause->effect relation between opium wars and the crimes of US BigPharma. If you follow what is happening right now with the US in Munich at the security conference, then China isn't the evil that the US paints them as. China is a threat to the West for sure but the real terrorist really is the US (who are preparing for war): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDRoY2PQsGg -> When I posted my reply my emotions were running a bit high on the hypocrisy that the US is pushing again in Munich. So I want to apologize for that. I also edited my above comment.

[carapace]

> not suggesting nor calling anyone a moral cretin. My point is that if you don't have an extradition agreement in place then what are you gonna do? (-> e.g. "why would anyone in China care").

Cheers, that makes more sense. Sorry.

> I'd never thought so, or meant to accuse you of subscribing to conspiracy theories.

Oh but I do.

Robert Anton Wilson pointed out that in the last century, of regime changes, more than half came about as the result of a coup, conspiracy.

Or, as Colonel Hunter Gathers said so memorably, "The moment God crapped out the third cave man a conspiracy was hatched against one of them."

The ability to hatch conspiracy is the evolutionary driver of intelligence. What differentiates us from the animals is not language, but rather the ability to lie.

Anyhoo, that's a big ol' tangent. You didn't offend me, FWIW. We're cool.